408 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
The principal of these vessels was 15 inches in height, 16.5 inches in maximum 
diameter, and 13 inches aeross the opening. Within the pot were some of the 
small bones lying on the bottom, a skull resting against the side above them, 
and fragments of long bones around the skull. Many of the bones in this pot 
showed marked effect of fire, including the skull, which went to pieces when 
removed. Other fragments of bone, however, were without evidence of the 
action of heat. 
Another pot, 12 inches in height, 15.5 inches across the widest part, and 
having an opening one foot in diameter, illustrates the spirit of economy that was 
strong in many of the aborigines. "The bottom of the pot, missing through break- 
age preceding the time of interment, had been replaced by a platter or basin 
arranged below the missing part. This basin was itself defective, a part of 
the rim being absent. On the basin was coarse, incised decoration, consisting 
of lines and circles. 
This composite receptacle, illustrating in a way that two wrongs can make 
a right, contained the bones of an adult, showing no trace of the effect of fire. 
In the basin, on the bottom, were the pelvis and small bones. Next, the long 
bones had been placed diagonally in the vessel, and on the slant of these rested 
the skull which, like all erania found at this place, dropped to pieces when 
removed. Жү 
The third pot, 11.5 inches high, 16.5 inches in greatest diameter, 12 inches 
across the opening, contained small bones on the base, on them resting the 
skull, over which were the long bones placed obliquely. 
A singular feature of this burial, adult like the rest, was that the bones and 
fragments immediately on the base of the pot clearly showed the action of fire, 
while none of the bones above them did so, thus indicating that the vessel with 
its contents had been placed over a fire for a time. The ceremony, however, 
must have been performed apart from the site of the urn-burial, as no sign of 
fire was apparent in the neighborhood. 
The fourth vessel, without shell tempering, of inferior ware, as was practically 
all the earthenware, was a cup-shaped bowl having had the effigies of a small 
head and tail extending from the rim at opposite sides, which had been broken 
off and lost prior to the interment. Three incised circles surrounded the upper 
part of the bowl, eurving under the places where the head and tail had been. 
This vessel, of medium size, contained no burial. 
Surrounding the group of vessels was a deposit of bones and fragments of 
bones in no order whatever, including six skulls. This deposit, an indiscriminate 
mixture of bones, some showing the mark of fire but more being without it, was 
from 4 to 5 inches in thickness and 5 feet 9 inches by 5 feet 4 inches in extent, 
irregular with rounded corners, having from one of them an extension 2 feet wide 
and 18 inches in length. Below and between the pots were no bones, though 
we have included the space occupied by the vessels in giving the dimensions of 
the deposit. 
